Charley Reese: Fooled Once, Not Again

Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war — Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers.

This morning after church I talked with a young boy, age 11, whom I first met in Kindermusik class when he was three years old. His name is Matthew. He is worried about his future. He has heard that there might be a draft and that he will have to register with the Draft Board in a few years. He doesn't want to grow up to be a soldier. The only thing I could say to him is that we are doing everything we can to change our government and change directions away from war and toward peace.

Matthew represents thousands of young boys who should not be made to worry about their future. It is up to us, the grownups, to do everything we can to make Matthew's future prosperous and fulfilling.

Charley Reese wrote an excellent article in May 2004 which tells why he is voting for John Kerry. One of the most compelling things he says is this:

"People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice."

Click on the blog title to go to the full article. Find out why Charley Reese thinks Bush is anything but conservative. He tells it like it is.

"I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us with it."